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[Owen Fiss] ↠ The Irony of Free Speech â Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Irony of Free Speech "Second coming of Orwell" according to A Customer. The "editorial description" of the book states: "Owen M. Fiss, a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School, believes that censorship, to some degree, enhances freedom."You know, like war is peace, and slavery is freedom.Slippery rhetoric makes for dangerous thinking.. A Customer said If only we could toss New Haven into the sea.. Take it from a twelve year old, this statist diatribe is to be avoided at all costs. Perfectly content with living in the
| Title | : | The Irony of Free Speech |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.23 (630 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674466616 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-29 |
| Language | : | English |
"Second coming of Orwell" according to A Customer. The "editorial description" of the book states: "Owen M. Fiss, a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School, believes that censorship, to some degree, enhances freedom."You know, like war is peace, and slavery is freedom.Slippery rhetoric makes for dangerous thinking.. A Customer said If only we could toss New Haven into the sea.. Take it from a twelve year old, this statist diatribe is to be avoided at all costs. Perfectly content with living in the past, Fiss and his arguments find themselves in much the same predicament as his comrade Vladimir Leninfor some reason, both are still on display long after they should've been buried.. Three Stars Interesante pero superado por internet y tecnologías
Silencing the voices of some in order to hear the voices of others, he maintains, is often the only way to reinforce public debate. . Fiss, a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School, believes that censorship, to some degree, enhances freedom by broadening "the terms of public discussion." Victims of hate speech and pornography, he contends, are often silenced out of fear or low self-worth, inhibiting their full participation not only in deliberation but in life. While lawmakers, both liberal and conservative, argue that the state's attempts to limit everything from hate speech to indecency on the Internet and contributions to political campaigns confines individual freedom, Owen M
How free is the speech of someone who can't be heard? Not very--and this, Owen Fiss suggests, is where the First Amendment comes in. If equal participation is a precondition of free and open public debate, then the First Amendment encompasses the values of both equality and liberty.By examining the silencing effects of speech--its power to overwhelm and intimidate the underfunded, underrepresented, or disadvantaged voice--Fiss shows how restrictions on political expenditures, hate speech, and pornography can be defended in terms of the First Amendment, not despite it. Similarly, when the state requires the media to air voices of opposition, or funds art that presents controversial or challenging points of view, it is doing its constitutional part to protect democratic self-rule from the aggregations of private power that threaten it.Where most liberal accounts cast the state as the en
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